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Re: PATCH: PR target/39590: inline asm %z on amd64 says "ll" instead of "q"
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:50 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, this change will break existing asm statement with "fild%z".
>>
>> Only on Solaris -- but you cannot eat both pieces of the cake, all we
>> can do is document this on the release notes. ?I don't think the
>> likelihood of people using fild%z in asm statements is very high, while
>> the PR reporter's case is at least plausible.
>>
>
> If it is the case, we can just output 'q' for %z. People can use
> GNU assembler on Solaris. I also have contacted appropriate
> Solaris people about this issue.
>
I was told that the current Solaris assembler supports "fildq".
Maybe we can use my original patch.
--
H.J.